c The Search and Rescue Management Information System's reporting
policy has been revised and now requires complete reporting on all Lives saved. This policy also includes reporting on Lives saved in connection with Coast Guard Law
Enforcement Activity (i.e., Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations (AMIO)).
AMIO Lives saved in fiscal year 1992 was determined to be
approximately 12,000. AMIO Lives
saved in fiscal year 1994 was
determined to be 15,179.

d Those persons whose lives were lost before the U.S. Coast Guard
was notified of an incident.

e The Egypt Air (217 fatalities) and Alaska Air (88 fatalities)
crashes account for the increase in 2000.

f Those persons whose lives were lost in an incident to which the
U.S. Coast Guard was responding, but who were alive at the time the U.S.
Coast Guard was notified of the incident.

1985-1993: U.S. Department of Transportation,
U.S. Coast Guard, Search and
Rescue Management Information Systems (SARMIS II) Database, available at
www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/92-01summary.htm as of Aug. 8, 2002.